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The Dutch prize their pedal power, but a sea of bikes swamps their capital
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: About 6:30 weekday mornings, throngs of bicycles, with a smattering of motor scooters and pedestrians, pour off the ferries that carry bikers and other passengers free of charge across the IJ (pronounced eye) harbor, clogging the streets and causing traffic jams down behind Amsterdams main train station. In the afternoon its even more, moaned Erwin Schoof, a metalworker in his 20s who lives in the canal-laced center of town and battles the chaos daily to cross to his job. Willem van Heijningen,...
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